Was execution a just punishment for Saddam?

Now you have to OPEN your Eyes look in the mirror and ask yourself, didn't this Bush admin do the same? What good did Bush to Iraq, America and the world with his war on Iraq?

If you don't have an honest oppinion like so many others ..... don't reply.

Without this war the US economy would have been much, much better and the oil prices much lower.
And probably hundreds of thousands of people would be alive.
Not killed by US soldiers, or insurgents.

(This war stinks like S#$3, they want to convince us it smells like roses.
Not everyone in US is a moron.)

 

I did in one at least.

 

Probably over a million Americans protested, just not all at once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

I don't feel like doing the tally. But there were a few that had hundreds of thousands.

 

No one knows what Saddam might have done after all the support he was getting from France, Germany, and Russia.

 

Boogeymen Bogart, Boogeymen!

No one knows if Bush will attack Iran, even though they do not have nukes, the Iraq occupation force can't prove they are sending weapons to Iraq, and their military poses no threat to the United States.

Oh wait, we do know. Bush is going to start a 3rd war we cannot afford, against people who stood with us against the Taliban.

 

Saddam doesn't pose a threat now does he?

 

I'm sure you can find people on this forum who will insist that Saddam has sleeper cells and plans working after his death...

Iraq didn't post a threat in 2001 either. He had no nukes, no functional airforce, and no navy.

 

Are you sure he didn't pose a threat? He did have money and power.

 

Since the end of the First Gulf War in 1991 Saddam continued to pose a threat to the region.

In 1993, Iraq organized an attempt to assassinate former U.S. President George Bush and the Emir of Kuwait.

In 1994, Saddam attempted to blackmail the UN Security Council into lifting sanctions by massing his forces for another invasion of Kuwait. In response, the UNSC passed Resolution 949, ordering Iraq to withdraw its Republican Guard forces from southern Iraq.

In August 1996, the regime's forces attacked the Kurdish-held city of Irbil. Within hours, Iraqi secret police had swarmed over the city, arresting hundreds and killing scores of suspected oppositionists

Saddam continued to attack coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones

 

I find this one interesting, don't most countries do this on one level or another?
Do we not swarm cities who are against us in Iraq and kill scores of enemies?

Further i find this interesting as most people on the Pro War side bring up how Al Qaeda fighters were in Iraq 'the north', an area Saddam did not have control over 'but' he should have known about them and been able to get them.

Had he known about them, had he been able to get them would he not be accused of items such as this in a negative fashion?

None of the things you list show any form of a 'threat' more like a gnat pestering, pestering is not a danger.

On the other hand we bombed him year after year....

 

I find this one quite funny. He was trying to assert himself in his own airspace. Boohoo!

Most of the charges Bogart posted are in defense of national sovereignty. It's nothing we would not do in the same situation.

 

Saddam cracking down in the Kurdish Irbil was not the reason for the war.

The problem was the sanctions were needed to contain Saddam and the sanctions were in cracking. Leaders in France, Germany and Russia were receiving money from Saddam to help him bust the sanctions. Saddam proved that given a chance he would rebuild and become a threat again.

 

No but you listed it as a reason for him being a threat.

Saddam proved he had pretty much nothing to fight with, I fail to see where he proved he would rebuild and become a threat again, especially to the degree that he could threaten us, even if he tried.

 

Germany was crushed after WWI and in the Weimar Republic days it cost a basket of money to buy a loaf of bread. It took Hitler only a few years in power and he was threatening the whole world.

Sanctions could not work forever. Saddam was a threat in the past and would eaisly become a menace in the future. Russia was ready to re-equip him. Granted his forces could not pose a threat to the US but he could have rolled into Saudi or Kuiwat and turned our oil off.

 

Modern day technology take a bit more to produce than during the time of Nazi Germany Really can't compare the two on multiple levels.

I highly doubt he could have simply rolled into either country, nor would he have.

This also makes it 'all about oil' to have such an argument.

 

Was it the conspiracy Oil theory or the reality of terrorists attacks on US targets including the targets of 9/11?

 

Which had what to do with Saddam and Iraq?

 

Al quada operations used Saddam's money to fund the attacks.

 

Uh huh..

Where might I ask did you find that Saddam funded Al Qaeda and 9/11 ?

Or is it a case of following the money and that some finally reached the hi jackers, if that's the case then I guess we are all drug dealers as our money at times is used to buy drugs.